Wednesday, April 15, 2009

3:30 ET: Eleanor Smeal discusses the plight of women in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where an upsurge in attacks on civil rights is underway.

A woman's rights activist was killed on Monday in Kandahar, and just today women who protested the Shiite family law which legalized marital rape were pelted with rocks. smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, will discuss the attack on civil rights for women and what the Obama administration and international leader are doing about it.

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